Paper Bag Albums

Here's some pics of the albums I made as gifts for Mike and Meghan McG. and Shawn and Rachel H.. I went up to Maryland over Valentine's Day weekend and delivered the gifts. The girl album is for M&M since they are about to have a baby girl named Emma later this month. The boy album was for S&R for their son Luke's 1st bday.

Catching up

Wow. I have been bad about posting. I will try to improve that, but no promises. I have however, really been keeping up on my goals for 2009! Every one of them!

Weight Loss
In mid-February, I helped start the group, Dieting Divas, at school. It is our own weight watching/healthy lifestyle group. Each Friday, we all weigh in and then meet after school and discuss what helps us with weight loss and different healthy living topics. In February, 25 people participated and all 25 lost weight.

Although I am not thrilled with my progress, many people are telling me I am doing exactly what I should be. I have been going to the gym 6-7 days a week (starting this week I am taking more breaks to make sure I don't overdo it) and following WW points. I am now journaling more and cutting some of my carbs to help.

Here's my gym schedule and approx. how many calories I burn at each activity according to my HR monitor.

• Sunday: Body Pump (250-300 calories) plus 20-30 min. cardio (200ish calories)
• Monday: break day
• Tuesday: PAC class (500-550 calories)
• Wednesday: Heavy weights and Body Attack (500-550 calories)
• Thursday: PAC class (500-550 calories)
• Friday: off most weeks
• Saturday: Basketball and/or 30 min. PAC (350ish calories) and Body Combat (500-550 calories).

The House

I am DONE painting the moldings for the entire upstairs and the downstairs hallway. In the next few weeks I will start on the other downstairs rooms. I also bought the paint for the hallways and the gues bedroom. I came up with a color scheme and decorating ideas for the guest bedroom too!

This weekend, we also did some work on the yard. Chip helped me with my gardening goals by building my box for my square foot garden (http://www.squarefootgardening.com/) and I cleaned up some of the mess from the previous owners. I also started some seeds in my mini greenhouse.

Crafts

I went to a 12 hour scrapbook crop last weekend and a crop at Melissa's house a few weeks ago. I have finished 3 paper bag albums (two baby ones as gifts for Mike and Meghan and Shawn and Rachel and 1 summer themed album fr me). I have also created some crafts for around the house and as other gifts. Oh, and I finished my wedding album and started working on my doggie album. I will do a thread soon for some of my albums I made.